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by kevinskii 6y ago
You're right that it may not have been "stealing" in the strict legal sense, but it was unethical and deceptive. More details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10466888
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The New, Nicer Nero(smithsonianmag.com)
44 points by kevinskii 6y ago|25 comments
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by kevinskii 6y ago
I believe that Neuralink has potential to do great things. However, like many other Musk ventures, they vastly exaggerate their own accomplishments while downplaying remaining challenges. Most brain-machine interface advances will probably
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by kevinskii 6y ago
Thank you for joining the discussion. What do you think about the counterargument that they don't need to create a full mind-body interface, that they could offer a lot of benefit just by doing simpler things like predicting limb movem
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by kevinskii 6y ago
Not to take anything away from the Neuralink team, but predicting joint movements in a steady gait is one thing. Predicting join movements in starting, stopping, changing speed, and accurately manipulating objects is quite another.
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by kevinskii 6y ago
It's non-invasive. No need. (Maybe you were joking.)
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by kevinskii 6y ago
No, not by a long shot. See, for example: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190619142542.h...
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by kevinskii 6y ago
I'd be happy to be corrected by an actual neuroscientist, but I don't think some folks realize just how far away the Neuralink team is from being able to do any of the things they are claiming. Inserting electrodes in the brain is
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by kevinskii 6y ago
Any UBI system that is funded through a free market economy will necessarily have the rich paying far more in taxes than they receive in basic income in return.
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by kevinskii 6y ago
It's a good question, but Sam Altman has written about the need to compensate startup employees more fairly (see the link at the bottom of the article). Also, these types of "startup equity is worthless" articles tend to pop
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by kevinskii 6y ago
Bite one inmate's ear...shame on you. Bite a 2nd inmate's ear...shame on him. Bite a 3rd inmate's ear...that's fricking badass.
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by kevinskii 6y ago
It would be great if there were a way to make content moderation more humane, but perhaps this is like saying that it would be great if we could make hospital emergency room work more humane. It is unavoidably traumatic, and ER staff are kn
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by kevinskii 6y ago
I was a sonar tech on a nuclear submarine 20 years ago. I don't recall hearing about any ultrasonic applications. As for the "audible ping": Yes, such a capability exists, and it is very much like the movies. It is rarely use
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by kevinskii 6y ago
When I last did a serious job search a few years ago, I thought I was pretty hot stuff. Nonetheless, I spent a few months reviewing algorithm text books and practicing code interview problems. Then my first phone interview came, and I total
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by kevinskii 6y ago
Please make it clear that you’re quoting the piece. Your entire comment is a literal copy/paste of the first few paragraphs.
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by kevinskii 6y ago
It's not necessarily a choice of "Pinboard" vs. "Microsoft" vs. "create your own bookmarking website." For me, it's "Pinboard" vs. "text file". At $11/year, I would choose Pin
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by kevinskii 6y ago
Unfortunately this was the interview that diminished my opinion of him somewhat. He was obnoxiously self-absorbed and self-congratulatory throughout.
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by kevinskii 6y ago
I prefer to combine the approaches. Read blogs to get a general sense of what's worth studying more deeply. Then study it more deeply with a textbook or MOOC. Then read blogs and watch videos to help clarify the concepts that you didn&
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by kevinskii 6y ago
One time I was day-dreaming while riding and realized too late that I was about to run a red light. I instinctively panic-braked and came to a stop right in the middle of the intersection. Fortunately there was no traffic around, but that o
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by kevinskii 6y ago
I disagree with your comment; these were not “violent rioters.” But I vouched for it, as it should not have been flag killed.
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Lisa Piccirillo: An Intro to the Nature of Abstract Math (2013) [video](vimeo.com)
2 points by kevinskii 6y ago|0 comments
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by kevinskii 6y ago
Interesting. How can you tell that they're not seismically qualified by looking at the exteriors of the instruments?
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by kevinskii 6y ago
Yes, the prediction was clearly stupid. No one is arguing that. But claiming it was the "worst day in the history of the CEA," or words to that effect, amounted to a long and pointless distraction that could have been avoided, and
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by kevinskii 6y ago
The issue itself is easy to understand, once you know what it even is. It's not clear from the original tweet alone that the CEA was actually claiming what they were being accused of claiming. Establishing that requires some further re
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by kevinskii 6y ago
I came to the same realization, but it was unnecessarily difficult to see through all of the snark. If all parties had simply focused on the salient points of disgreement rather than snarking at each other, it could have been cleared up muc
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by kevinskii 6y ago
Once he is allowed to re-open, won't the first issue go away as well? I believe unemployment benefits are contingent on not having a job to go back to. If they're allowed to return to work and your friend wants them back, then the
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by kevinskii 6y ago
Fascinating! Also worth a look is Lake Lahontan, which covered much of northern CA and southern OR about 12,000 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Lahontan
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A way to shrink deep learning models(news.mit.edu)
2 points by kevinskii 6y ago|0 comments
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by kevinskii 6y ago
This summed up my experience with it pretty well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21216200
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by kevinskii 6y ago
I agree with you, but that wasn't the claim that I was replying to.

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